Susan Wilkof of Canton joins Hadassah board

Susan Wilkof of Canton has been elected to a two-year term to the national board of the Hadassah Foundation.

Susan Wilkof of Canton has been elected to a two-year term to the national board of the Hadassah Foundation.

The board of directors is comprised of 18 women, including members of the National Board of Hadassah, other members of Hadassah and representatives from the Jewish community at large.

Wilkof’s term began Jan. 1 and will end on Dec. 31, 2012.

A member of the National Board, Wilkof chaired the 100th anniversary celebration for Young Judaea in 2009. Previously, she served as President of Hadassah’s Central States Region, organization vice president, region service coordinator, and marketing specialist for the Central States Region. She also served as the Canton chapter president, membership and fundraising vice president, constitutional review committee chair and donor chair.

She was selected to participate in the first Young Leaders Mission to Israel in 1996 and received the President’s Award in 1995.

Wilkof was a member of the 15th Class of Leadership Stark County in 2001-02, and served on the board of Families First, where she chaired the marketing committee. She also has served on the boards of the Canton Jewish Community Federation, Canton Jewish Community Center, and Shaaray Torah Synagogue, chairing several committees for each organization.

In 1991, she was awarded the Canton Jewish Community Federation’s Young Leadership Award.

A former teacher, Wilkof is a graduate of Miami University. Currently, she manages website development, public relations and corporate functions for her family’s company, Stark Industrial. She and her husband Sam are Hadassah Centennial Founders. Their three sons, Jonathan, Michael, and Evan, are all Hadassah associates and have traveled to Israel on Hadassah sponsored missions.